Open-Channel Flow

• Main Author: Chaudhry, M. Hanif (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational intelligence.; Fluid mechanics.; Civil engineering.; Engineering geology.; Engineering > Geology.; Foundations.; Hydraulics.; Water pollution.; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Civil Engineering.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.; Computational Intelligence.

Analysis of open-channel flow is essential for the planning, design, and operation of water-resource projects. The use of computers and the availability of efficient computational procedures has simplified such analysis and made it possible to handle increasingly complex systems. In Open-Channel Flo...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Concepts
• Conservation Laws
• Critical Flow
• Uniform Flow
• Gradually Varied Flow
• Computation Of Gradually Varied Flow
• Rapidly Varied Flow
• Computation of Rapidly Varied Flow
• Channel Design
• Special Topics
• Unsteady Flow
• Governing Equations For One-Dimensional Flow
• Numerical Methods
• Finite-Difference Methods
• Two-Dimensional Flow
• Sediment Transport
• Special Topics.